There’s something off about Taylor Swift…isn’t there? Despite possessing the statuesque––and ergo the most expedient––corporeal proportions to satisfy the modern music industry’s criteria for success, and...
Hello, San Diego! Thanks so much to those who came out to support last month’s Noted Song Swap. It was a resounding success, full of brilliant...
Hello Troubadourians! A few months ago, I wrote a column about having started giving guitar lessons to T, a friend from work. (You can find that...
I come from a long line of junkers. My grampa would spend hours in thrift stores and then fill his garage full of the treasures he...
Patch-ups, Matchups, and Unexpected Angels In summing up the primary duties within my privileged role as a record producer, “patch-ups and matchups” is mostly what I...
Well, that’s a wrap on the Grateful Dead. 58 years from the remnants of a Palo Alto, California jug band called Mother McCree’s Uptown Jug Champions...
Obsculta is the fifth CD offering from the group Haywire, 14 tracks of original tunes. The group, based out of the lovely mountain town of Julian,...
I first met Dan Atkinson in person some 13 years ago, on a bright sunny afternoon at the now defunct KSDS/Ocean Beach Jazz Festival, although I’d...
A lot of coastal San Diego is pretty flat, places where there is little or no up or down. The landscape is, well… just flat. These...